Honestly, I believe the birth of riffing came maybe half a second after the birth of performance art. (And to go back much more recently, apparently in the era of silent movies wiseacres took it upon themselves to fill in the dialogue themselves. Mel Blanc educates me!)
The prop stunts are replaced by sketch comedy (although with Joel especially, prop comedy featured greatly, too), which is a fine trade-off for me because I was never really into Audience Participation Time; I find it distracting and annoying, so therein our tastes differ. And I love the references for just that reason--I don't get all of them, but I get enough to know just how ridiculously obscure they are. (Everything from Walt Whitman to Talking Heads, history to Star Trek, finds its way in there.)
Night of the Lepus disappointed me because, c'mon, even the 50s atomic sci-fi had process shots! Bewildered bunnies gnawing on models just didn't cut it!
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Date: 2010-08-27 03:33 am (UTC)Honestly, I believe the birth of riffing came maybe half a second after the birth of performance art. (And to go back much more recently, apparently in the era of silent movies wiseacres took it upon themselves to fill in the dialogue themselves. Mel Blanc educates me!)
The prop stunts are replaced by sketch comedy (although with Joel especially, prop comedy featured greatly, too), which is a fine trade-off for me because I was never really into Audience Participation Time; I find it distracting and annoying, so therein our tastes differ. And I love the references for just that reason--I don't get all of them, but I get enough to know just how ridiculously obscure they are. (Everything from Walt Whitman to Talking Heads, history to Star Trek, finds its way in there.)
Night of the Lepus disappointed me because, c'mon, even the 50s atomic sci-fi had process shots! Bewildered bunnies gnawing on models just didn't cut it!